Greetings:
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I am brand new to OS/2 and installed Warp 3 on my IBM Model 8595 at home just yesterday. I am looking at putting a BBS system online (again) using OS/2 as the base OS and plan to use it via telnet.
I am currently stuck in the part where my NIC (the Microchannel 3Com 3C523MC) is not being seen by the system and I now have the drivers for the card but need to install them and I am not sure if that is straight forward or not?
Generally, I am a newbie (to OS/2) but an "old hat" in Linux/UNIX, Macintosh and of course DOS/Windows.
I could use a lot of direction and hope that this community will be a good resource. If you would be willing to help me track down software I need and offer general help, feel free to PM me here or visit my Forums and utilize the OS/2 area of my board and PM me there.
Email me directly via the link on my blog which is http://www.jmikeneedham.net (http://www.jmikeneedham.net)
Hope this community will be a lot of help as I venture into this part of my vintage computing hobby.
Please feel free to interact with me as you will!
Thanks in advance,
Mike Needham
Sometimes I have to support Warp 3 on Microchannel for clients. I've used that network many times -- it's a good choice. To get it to work, you need to remember that Microchannel machines need to know about the cards you plug in. You'll need to have a reference diskette. You should be able to access the system programs at boot -- on a later machine like yours, the system programs should be on the hard drive. If you don't have a reference diskette, google for it. PS/2 fans have posted the reference diskettes for download.
Now to add the device driver, you'll need to make sure you have installed Warp 3 Connect. If you didn't, go get a copy of Warp 3 Connect and install that instead of Warp 3. It will detect your network card, and install drivers for it. Once you're running, you'll have a full suite of TCP/IP programs that are pretty old, but work. Don't fool around with the plain Warp 3, it's not worth it because it has no support for network cards. Warp 3 Connect would be perfect for your chosen hardware.
Of course, you could also run eComStation on a modern computer, but that doesn't sound like what you want to do.